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1 Schilling - Gotthard Kettler Mitau
| Issuer | Duchy of Courland and Semigallia |
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| Year | 1575-1577 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Mint | Mitau Mint |
| Mintage | 1575 - (15)75 - 1576 - (15)70; Error date - 1576 - (15)76 - 1577 - (15)77 - |
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Gotthard Kettler founded the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia in 1561 under Polish-Lithuanian suzerainty, having secularized the remnant Livonian Order territories following the catastrophic Livonian War. These schillings, struck at Mitau across three years in the mid-1570s, reflect the duchy's early effort to establish a functioning monetary identity separate from the dissolved Order's coinage — billon being the practical reality for a small, war-exhausted state still rebuilding administrative infrastructure. Kettler died in 1587, leaving a duchy that would outlast him by over two centuries.